I have to call myself out on something – I don’t have any facial hair. No beard, no goatee, not even a soul patch. I’m clean shaven and sideparted. I’ve come to the conclusion that this makes me somewhat of a rarity in the beer geek kingdom, sort of like one of those weird skinless cats. Besides me, just about every hardcore beer fan I know (the boys anyway) have some sort of facial hair, sideburns not withstanding.

I’m hoping to get some data behind this, so I’ve created the poll below. Please take a moment and let us know where you stand with facial hair. Also, I’d appreciate it if you’d share the poll with beer geeks you know so we can get as large of a sample as possible. I don’t mean to pander for site traffic here, I just want to see how much of a freak I am. I suspect that it might be worse than I think.

Also, Don and I are working on something new – a video-casty kinda thing. We did a test run last night and touched upon this very subject. I’ve posted it below as well so you can check it out and let us know what you think (besides the fact that my mic is too low).

EXPLICIT UPDATE: Our pal Daniel has launched a new website for facialfolicalphiles in the style of his beer-related website. Click here to check it out but be warned, the site contains decidedly NSFW language, which is awesome.

I try to shave only 3 times a week so I can have a nice 5 o’clock shaddow daily. I enjoy a light beard. When it’s racing season, I generally support a bigger beard and then shave it into something for a race. Mustaches 75% of the time.

My beard has reached full gestation today. Nine months since my unfortunate coldface situation. This was the first year in a while that I didn’t participate in moustache march. Last year, I was Yosemite Sam with 18 months of whiskers sprouting from my upper lip. The facial hair thing goes back much further than the craft (or any) beer thing for me, with mutton chops, fu manchus and even the goatee (the Dane Cook of facial hair) sported over the last decade.

I have sported a short beard for about three years now and have the blond hair/red beard combo. My girlfriend steadfastly refuses to let me shave it off. I have been told I look exactly like the gay dad in “Modern Family.” I’m unsure how to take that.

Hilarious poll! There seems indeed a disproportionate amount of ‘beards’ in the beer community! I switch back and forth between a full beard and a goatee, compromise between wife’s clean shaven preference and the full beard). Had that since high school, there is only 1 picture of me in my adult life I am aware of that shows me clean shaven.

If John Krasinski decides to retire from playing “Jim” on The Office, I think you could slide right into the role with no one noticing. I see a Dick York/Dick Sargent Bewitched switch in your future. You’ll cost less and you’re already named Jim!

Hold on there, fella, I don’t think she’s outta my reach, but because I adore my wife, we’ll never know! And thanks for calling Don Kevin and not Dwight – he doesn’t have the psychopathic flair to pull that off!

Man, I’ve had this goatee for before forever. Since before I was a beer geek and just a regular geek. My wife says I look 10 years younger without it, so that’s her reason for making me keep it? Once in awhile I have a shaving ‘accident’ but then the nagging starts to grow it back. Makes me want to run away and join a facial hair liberation colony.

Interesting poll. I went beardless for a 20+ years. That changed in 2009 when the neighbors went with a pirate themed Halloween. Grew the beard and kept it till Spring. Decided to grow it again this past Thanksgiving. I’m down to a goatee. Let’s see how long it lasts.

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